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Bit late to the game here, but many thanks for adding those photos. My gran was born at 157 Prescott Street in 1905.

My family lived at 226 Fordbridge Road in the 1960s before we did the short hop to Auckland Drive in Chelmsley Wood's area 10 when it was brand new. My dad worked as a barman at The Kingshurst. I am not sure exactly when or for how long but it would have been around 1964-68. His name was Jim Baker.

My grandfather's brother Bert Wilson ran the White Lion for a while before he died in a horse accident in 1914. Prior to that he had run the Court Restaurant, facing the law courts on Corporation Street.

Just for anyone interested, the black and white maps are from my website The Long, Long Trail

I have found that a relative of mine, one Morris Howells, was a publican who moved from the White Hart Inn on Cromwell Street to the Flag Tavern (or Flag Inn) on Howe Street in 1891. A long shot, I know, but does anyone know of photographs of either pub in the late 19th Century? I am...

On 28 May 1917, the 11th Royal Warwicks were in the front line area east of Arras. The previous day, they had been providing working parties improving the Wancourt-Feuchy defensive line. Later on 28 May, they were relieved by another unit and marched out to Achicourt. The battalion's war diary...

The official casualty lists can be found online in several places. I have some information about that here: http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/soldiers/how-to-research-a-soldier/casualty-lists/ Hospital admission registers are much less complete...

Tel D, there are several other West Midlands men who served with the West Yorkshire Regiment with numbers around 15701. They enlisted voluntarily in thier home areas on and around 6 November 1914 and it was their own choice to join that regiment. Perhaps there was a concerted effort to recruit...

Thank you. My search of the forum somehow did not manage to locate that! Very helpful.

My family live on Whittall Street and Weaman Street for many years and I have found that several of them were buried in St. Mary's churchyard cemetery. I have seen a news clipping ("Birmingham Gazette" of Tuesday 24 September 1929) that suggests that the remains were relocated to Witton...

Thank you, both. Very interesting. I had no idea that this kind of regeneration was going on there. I must stop by one day soon and have a wander around.

My family was one of the first to move into Area 10 of Chelmsley Wood when it was still being built. I think it was in 1969 and I was still at Yorkswood Juniors in Kingshurst (used to go on my bike). We lived on Auckland Drive. For the next three years until we moved away I had a paper round...

Charlie, where did John live? There area few "possibles" of the right name and age in the service record collections.

The pension records held by WFA are not available online or anywhere else. They were about to be thrown out by the Ministry of Defence a couple of years ago, and WFA saved them by agreeing to take them into storage. They are thinking about digitising them but they are complex documents and not...

I would not advise that, frankly. You would be wasting your money. A much, much better first step would be to contact the Western Front Association for a look-up of the pension records they hold. See...

Thomas's short period of service until being discharged when they found out he had given false details would not have led to payment of a pension. He certainly became eligible for conscription under the 1916 Military Service Act. I believe Terry is likely to be right in that he became Pte...

Re: WW1 hospitals in Birmingham This may be of interest: https://www.1914-1918.net/southerngen.htm

Charles' Nicklin's RAF service record is held at the National Archives. It is not online. You would be advised not to hand over money to Forces War Records as they do not have it. Here is the reference: AIR 79/2133/237113

Adam, you may have seen that there are four men named as Benjamin Pollard who appear in the index to the WW1 campaign medals, and two more if we include men with middle initials. If your Benjamin went overseas (and assuming he served under his correct name), he will be one of them. Are you sure...

I am not sure how "alive" the Friends or even the Centre is. Up to about two years ago it was a thriving and very active community, but since then two or three very prominent members of the university staff who were the main drivers of it have either retired or moved elsewhere. A similar thing...